Group portrait of Sydney Dillon Ripley with three others at the James Hazen Hyde Ball, New York, January 31, 1905 by Byron Company
© Bridgeman Art Library / © Museum of the City of New York, USA
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- Group portrait of Sydney Dillon Ripley with three others at the James Hazen Hyde Ball, New York, January 31, 1905
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- Byron Company
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- Bridgeman Art Library
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- © Bridgeman Art Library / © Museum of the City of New York, USA
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James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959) American millionaire socialite who inherited majority shares in the Equitable Life Assurance Society; His opulent New Year's Eve party of 1905 had a c18th French motif and filled two ballrooms at Sherry's Hotel; Sydney Dillon Ripley (d.1905) was Hyde's brother-in-law, the Director and Treasurer of the Equitable, and heir to the fortunes made by his grandfather Sidney Dillon, the builder of the Union Pacific Railway; Equitable subsided into chaos later that year after Hyde was accused of being too frivolous to run an insurance company;
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